World resources 2000-2001/people and ecosystems: The fraying Web of life
World Resources 2000-2001, the definitive guides to the global environment. The latest edition, focusing on People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life was presented to the world's environment mini...
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Environment, Ecosystem, Health Equity
Scholars In Health Disparities Program: supported by a grant from The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The Center for the Advancement of Health (CFAD) has received a $1.5 million, three-year grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to train a new generation of minority scientists in researching causes o...
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Health Status Disparities, Research, Health Equity
Rewriting the regulations: how the World Trade Organisation could accelerate privatisation in health-care systems
It has been a year since the World Trade Organization (WTO) met in Seattle under siege by protesters claiming that unrelenting globalization of trade is adversely affecting the economies of developing...
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Public Health, Developing Countries, Economics, WTO, Public Services, Advocacy
Social inequalities in health: New Zealand 1999
To achieve health and independence objectives, the Government requires reliable and valid information on population health outcomes, how equitably these outcomes are distributed across subgroups of th...
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20/12/2000
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50334, Health Equity
Policy futures for UK health 2000 report
This report is the outcome of a research project, established to explore future trends and issues in population health and health care in the United Kingdom forward to 2015. The aim of the project is ...
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Public Policy, Health Equity, ealthHealthHealth, Advocacy
Decentralization of health systems in Latin America
The studies found that relatively little decision space was allowed to local authorities over key functions of health care systems. The studies also found that central authorities often reduce the dec...
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Health Systems, 16763, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
From state to market: the Nicaraguan labour market for health personnel
"...Few countries in Latin America have experienced in such a short period the shift from a socialist government and centrally planned economy to a liberal market economy as Nicaragua. The impact of s...
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Health Personnel, 16048, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
The decline in child mortality: a reappraisal
"...The paper examines, describes and documents country-specific trends in under-five mortality rates (i.e., mortality among children under five years of age) in the 1990s. Our analysis updates previo...
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Child Mortality, Health Equity
What should macroeconomists know about health care policy?
This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need in situations where they must address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant mac...
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Economics, Health Policy, Equity, Living Conditions, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Solohijos
Informaciones para los padres acerca del joven de 13 a 17 años en las siguientes áreas temáticas: ámbito escolar, emotividad, inteligencia, comportamiento, familia, salud, crescimiento, hábitos y...
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Adolescent, Family, Health, Child Welfare
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